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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources [syn: medley, potpourri, pastiche]
2: a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Italian pasticcio Date: 1878 1. a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work; also such stylistic imitation 2. a. a musical, literary, or artistic composition made up of selections from different works ; potpourri b. hodgepodge • pasticheur noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a medley, esp. a picture or a musical composition, made up from or imitating various sources. 2 a literary or other work of art composed in the style of a well-known author. Etymology: F f. It. pasticcio ult. f. LL pasta PASTE

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pastiches) A pastiche is something such as a piece of writing or music in which the style is copied from somewhere else, or which contains a mixture of different styles. (FORMAL) Peter Baker's bathroom is a brilliant pastiche of expensive interior design. N-VAR

Moby Thesaurus

adoption, all sorts, appropriation, art object, assemblage, assortment, assumption, blend, borrowed plumes, brainchild, bric-a-brac, broad spectrum, burlesque, caricature, certified copy, classic, composite, composition, compound, conglomeration, copy, copying, counterfeit, creation, derivation, deriving, design, ectype, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, farce, farrago, forgery, gallimaufry, grotesque, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, icon, image, imitation, infringement, jumble, kitsch, lampoon, likeness, magpie, mash, master, masterpiece, masterwork, medley, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mixture, mobile, mockery, mocking, motley, museum piece, nude, odds and ends, old master, olio, olla podrida, omnium gatherum, omnium-gatherum, parody, pasticcio, patchwork, phony, picture, piece, piece of virtu, pirating, plagiarism, plagiary, portrait, potpourri, representation, resemblance, salad, salmagundi, satire, sauce, scramble, semblance, similitude, simulacrum, simulation, squib, stabile, statue, stew, still life, study, takeoff, taking, tangle, travesty, virtu, what you will, wicked imitation, work, work of art